This COVID Summer Is Nothing Like the Last One
Boosters are on the horizon, but cases are way up—and have been for months.
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“People in the Northern Hemisphere are now neck-deep in a summer of travel—and so, too, are the coronaviruses they’re carrying,” our Science writer Katherine J. Wu reported in early July. As the summer goes on and the coronavirus subvariant BA.5 continues to spread, I checked back in with Katie about where things are.
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- Where do the Democrats find these guys?
- A world without white people
- A key 9/11 plotter is dead. He was already irrelevant.
“A Bizarre Plateau”
Where does America’s COVID-19 situation stand right now?
